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by joelg 10y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law
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by joelg 10y ago
> Quick guide to spotting non-existent tech > - Refusing to give a launch date > ... > - Confusing working hard with making progress Some of these are valid, but some are inevitable for any tech that is actually revolutionary .
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Ask HN: Why aren't we using syntax-directed editors
3 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
No Safari support yet, but I'm really excited about the new Fetch API to replace XMLHttpRequest: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
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by joelg 10y ago
Also worth noting is scmutils [0], which is a symbolic computing library for MIT Scheme that Gerry Sussman [1] wrote and uses to teach 6.945 Symbolic Systems and 6.946 Computational Classical Mechanics. The documentation is sparse, but it&#
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The Brain Dump(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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HTML Transclusions with WebComponents and HTML Imports(joelgustafson.com)
2 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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New Zealand passport robot tells applicant of Asian descent to open eyes(reuters.com)
2 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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Treating cancer is awful(medium.com)
1 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
Not only might it be more fun, but you'd build a better intuition about what to expect from it (or even how it works). It's like how people often make fewer mistakes with slide-rules or abacuses than pocket calculators, since the
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by joelg 10y ago
I think there's a subtle danger to "cognitive outsourcing", or at least an important distinction to be aware of. "Cognitive outsourcing" works like an oracle, but many of our best tools work more like bicycles: very
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MIT Values(mitvalues.org)
35 points by joelg 10y ago|22 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
"Python 3 Is Not Turing Complete" ... Not only is this blatantly false, but the author acknowledges it as such and seems to think that it is still OK to write this sort of sentence. Backing a pure falsehood with anecdotal support
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by joelg 10y ago
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It's more humor than education, and more punctuation than grammar, but it's entertaining and sarcastic and very fun to read. https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...
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by joelg 10y ago
OT: XinY is a misnomer, since Y is constant: each of the articles is of fixed length. It would be really cool (more helpful) to have some sort of dynamically resizable guide to a language, where I could adjust its length and detail with a l
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by joelg 10y ago
Perhaps the FT visualization sides from Steven Wittens' Tools for Thought presentation might inspire you: https://acko.net/files/gltalks/toolsforthought/#28
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by joelg 10y ago
Another great free OS resource is MIT's 6.828: Operating System Engineering. "This course studies fundamental design and implementation ideas in the engineering of operating systems. Lectures are based on a study of UNIX and resea
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by joelg 10y ago
It depends on what you want out of it! If you're looking for immediately practical skills, of course you're better off taking 6.036 (machine learning). That's not the point of 6.034, which is something more vague that emphasi
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by joelg 10y ago
Papier - replace your new tab page with a markdown scratchpad. Dead-simple, local, and beautiful. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl... Visual History - augment back/forward wit
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Mediachain: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards(blog.mediachain.io)
1 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
> Indeed, the lambda calculus was never meant as a real programming language. In fact, not even Lisp itself was originally meant as a real programming language! McCarthy invented it as a notation for mathematical proofs, and one of his g
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Oracles and Bicycles(joelgustafson.com)
3 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
Wow! I haven't even thought about Snap Circuits for years. My parents bought me a set when I was a kid (before I began coding), and I loved them. I distinctly remember learning how the relay switch worked, thinking about how to create
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Ask HN: Should “unvote” and “un-favorite” be consistent?
2 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
Ted Nelson would be so proud. The atomicity of the internet - sealed documents at URLs - is really regrettable. A much more powerful design (although admittedly more complicated) would have been a "turtles all the way down", IPFS-
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by joelg 10y ago
Animating the loading of charts and force-directed graphs are the <marquee> and <blink> of the 2010s. In 5 years, they'll seem grotesquely tacky.
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by joelg 10y ago
I took 042 and 006 simultaneously, and wish I'd have just skipped 042 altogether. I'd seriously consider jumping straight into 006, and adding something else (SICP, 6.945, learn a new language, or commit yourself to a personal pro
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by joelg 10y ago
Lots of people addressing security and remote code execution by typo. Yes. You're right. If it scares you, don't use it. It's always possible to run malicious code by typo, and this is only a little different from installing
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by joelg 10y ago
It's a feedback loop, and a very effective one. The stronger the brand is, the more credibile your article will seem. The more credibile articles, the stronger the brand becomes.
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by joelg 10y ago
It may have been down for maintenance for millennia since your comment, and just come back now, but none of us noticed! Insert your favorite Matrix déjà vu reference here.

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